Senior Leadership

Olocity's leaders bring decades of experience, a track record as world experts in systems management, and a history of success delivering products, solutions, and services in both large and small companies. These executives guide a best-in-class team to create innovative technology and services that enable customers around the world to have confidence in managing their complex systems and computing solutions.

Roger Reich - President and CEO

Roger Reich has delivered leadership IT products and technology from enterprise management software to storage systems for more than 25 years. Roger had been an executive at Digital and VERITAS and is accredited with industry breakthroughs in enterprise management software, database systems, and performance benchmarking. He has also built several industry consortia including the Distributed Management Task Force, Transaction Processing Performance Council, Storage Performance Council and Storage Networking Industry Association.

Roger has delivered major industry standards including the first standards for interoperable enterprise class systems management (SMI-S/CIM/WBEM/SMASH/CDM). Having earned a engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he has been extensively published in Computer Technology Review, InfoStore, EE-Times and widely quoted in publications including BusinessWeek and ComputerWorld. Roger has been a featured speaker at numerous forums including Storage Networking World, the Computer Measurement Group, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Matthew Hamre - Chief Technology Officer

Matt Hamre has 15 years of experience designing and delivering management systems technologies at major technology companies including Oracle and Sun Microsystems. During that time, Matt demonstrated a track record of success in management technologies surrounding operating systems, servers, networks and storage techologies. Most recently he has worked as Director of Professional Services for WBEM Solutions Inc. and drove the company to lead the industry in delivering training, consulting and services to consumers of CIM/WBEM based technology.

Since 1998, Matt has participated in numerous standards activities including the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the Java Community Process (JCP) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) including SMI-S. For the past 7 years, he has been actively involved in promoting and defining the standards for the Common Information Model, Web Based Enterprise Management and the Storage Management Initiative.

Hope Hines - Chief of Operations and Programs

Hope Hines has a track record of success spanning 20 years experience leading high profile IT programs at Fortune 500 companies, including winning the CEO award of excellence at State Farm Corporation. She has led computer industry vendors to deliver breakthrough enterprise management technology, tools and related industry standards including SMI-S.

Hope has also planned, designed and implemented numerous IT projects within data centers and network operation centers (NOC), with particular emphasis on network management systems, deployment of networks and applications, and data centers from the ground up. In addition to running operations at consulting firms, she was responsible for training teams supplying battle field management systems in Dessert Storm. Hope is currently a program consultant for emerging technologies for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

Kurt Krems - Chief Development Officer

Kurt is the architect and chief developer of the xIM test and monitoring infrastructure as well as the StorageIM, ServerIM, HealthIM, and TestIM management software. He has over 15 years of software development experience building standards based management applications at Tek-Tools, Diogenes Labs, Level 3 Communications and Crosswalk.

Kurt has vast expertise in developing highly scalable enterprise class applications based on CIM and SNMP based technologies for client discovery, indications and provisioning. Kurt is currently the lead Architect SNIA SMI Client Test for the switch and HBA client Conformance Test Program and is the co-chair of the Management Application (MAP) TWG for the SNIA.

Scott Baker- Chief Storage Architect

Scott Baker has fifteen years of experience in the storage industry pioneering new architectures and delivering storage solutions at iStor Networks, Aristos Logic, CMD Technology, and Storage Concepts. Most recently, Mr. Baker delivered the embedded SMI-S management interface in the iStor on-chip RAID system.

Scott has been a long time contributor to the SNIA Storage Management Initiative and is currently chair of the Disk Resource Management (array controller) working group.  Mr Baker also participates in the IP Storage technical working group and the DMTF Network and Core working groups. Scott authored both the Extent Composition and Storage Server Asymmetry profiles and co-authored the iSCSI Target Port profile in SMI-S.

Scott holds both a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Riverside.

Jilly James - VP of Communications

Jilly James has been involved within the Storage Networking Industry since the year 2000. Before moving to the USA 3 years ago, Jilly worked for a leading edge technology training company, managing all accounts in Europe, the Far East and India. Whilst in the UK, Jilly held the position of the UK SNIA End User committee chair which was the most successful end user group within Europe.

After her move to the US, Jilly has worked for several leading companies in the storage arena handling marketing, sales and customer relations. She has also formed the St Louis SNUG (Storage Networking User Group) that in the year 2007 was the most proficient group in the USA for end user attendance and sponsorship.

Dennis Martin - Technical Director Olabs/President Demartek

Dennis has been working in the Information Technology industry for more than twenty-seven years, primarily involved in software development and project management in mainframe, UNIX, and Windows environments. These include a variety of large and small end-user customers, and engineering and marketing positions for storage vendors such as StorageTek.

Dennis is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Windows NT User Group in Denver, and served as its President for its first six years (1994-2000). Dennis was elected Denver Vice-President of the group in May 2007. Dennis has made numerous presentations at conferences and has authored many industry articles.

Dennis serves a dual role directing parts of the Olabs technical service offering while also leading the Demartek general purpose testing lab.

Dennis is a Microsoft Storage MVP for calendar years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.